PIANO TRIO AND ELECTRONICS
c. 10 MINUTES
premiere • 2025-10-22 @ LISBOA INCOMUM, LISBOA/PT •
commission Co-encomenda do Projecto DME, Universidade de Évora e Évora_27 - Capital Europeia da Cultura, no âmbito do projeto O Canto das Sementes

ENSEMBLE DME
violin • BEATRIZ COSTA •
cello • ÂNGELA CARNEIRO •
piano • ALEX WAITE •

CIRCULATION
2025-10-24 @ COLÉGIO MATEUS D'ARANDA, ÉVORA/PT •
2026-08-30 @ RMA-SMI-EADH CONFERENCE, BELFAST/IE •
The underlying layer of SHARK WANK – its micro- and macrostructures – is derived from the estimated carbon emissions (tCO₂e/year) of the Twitter account of the main narrator, who had 146.8 million followers as of July 2023. The narrator’s mantra, the semantization and the core of this piece, is taken from his viral January 2020 speech, interwoven with samples of his other sentences, arguments, ideas, and so on, as well as those of his friends; perhaps the pop queens can eventually deliver it all from evil. Lastly, the title of the piece refers both to the composer’s sincere appreciation of Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and to a sarcastic play on the narrator’s self-proclaimed business savvy and the television program.
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@ COLÉGIO MATEUS D'ARANDA • 2025-10-24 •